Horse hay-rake



(No Model.) r H. GALE.

HORSE HAY RAKE.

No. 342,084. Patented May 18, 1886.

PTnr' HORATIO GALE, OF ALBION, MICHIGAN.

HORSE HAY-RAKE.

QPECIFIGATIGN forming part of Letters Pa.ent No. 342,084, dated May 18, 1886.

Application filed September 10, 1885. Serial No. 176,087. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Honarro GALE, of Albion, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improveinents in Horse Hay-Rakes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in horse hayrakcs, by means of which great strength is obtained and a light and easily-handled device is secured.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the parts and their various oom binations, as more fully hcreinfter set forth.

Figure 1 is a vertical horizontal section of my improved horse hay-rake. Fig. 2 is a vertical central longitudinal section of the same through the axle. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional perspective, showing one end of the rake-head and one of the arms. Fig. 4 is abottom plan of the back piece of the head. Fig. 5 is a vertical section showing the construction of the rake-head.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents the rakehead, made of a light piece of rectangular'shaped timber of suitable length, and underneath which is secured, by means of'one or more clamping-bolts, a, the rod (3. To each end of this rake-head is secured the cast-metal plate B, somewhat in the form of an angleiron, one part of which rests upon the top of the head, where it is secured by means of a bolt, I), while the other part rests against the end of the head, and has a rib, 0, to rest against the under face of such head, and it has also a projection, :1, below the rib, through a suitable round hole in which passes the rod 0, which projects at either end of the head sutficiently far to form an arm for the wheels D. Each end of this rod has a thread, f, out thereon, and is provided with a nut, e. A metal thimble, E, is sleeved on each end of this rod, and this sleeve is sufficiently long its springing when in ordinary use. The hub ofthe wheel Dis sleeved upon the thimble and revolves thereon, such hub being a trifle shorter than the thimble, so as to play easily between the plate B and the nut e, which prevents the wheel from running off.

F is a back piece secured upon the top of the head at its rear edge. At proper distances apart there are bored into this back piece from the bottom and before it is secured in place a series of round holes, 71, and transversely to these holes and along the bottom edge of this back piece there are bored or cut slots i. Int-o each one of the vertical bores 71. is inserted a coil-spring, G, from the bottom, the slots i being too narrow to allow the springs to pass through them.

H are the springteeth of the rake, which are passed through the slots 1', so that the springs G will rest upon and above them.

The front end of each tooth is bent at right angles to itself, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, and this bent end is pivotally secured to the top of the head A by means of a box, I, which is cut away, as at m, to allow the tooth to partially rotate in its box, and to allow a verticallyradial movement to that part which forms the tooth proper, such latter movement being limited by the compresst bility and expansibility ot' the spring G.

K is the frame and shafts of the rake, piw otally secured at a to the rakehead A. Supports L are rigidly secured to this frame, to the upper ends of which are pivotally secured the arms'lll, at the free ends of which is secured the clearer-beam N, which has a series of teeth, 0, secured thereto which project between the rake-teeth.

l? are supports for the arms M,which are secured to the back piece, F, and their upper ends are forked, as shown in Fig. 2, to embrace the arms, and allow them to slide there in whenever the rake is dumped by any of the known and ordinary methods and force the load off from the teetl Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. In a sulky hay-rake, a rake-head, A, provided with a tension-rod, O, secured to the under side of said head, an overhanging plate, 13, a thimble, I and nut e, and the wheel turning on said thimble, the parts heing constructed, combined, and operating substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a sulky hay-rake, the -con1bination, with the rake-head A, of the overhanging plates B, secured to said head and having each a downwardly-extended lug, d, and the rod 0, supported by said lugs, the thimbles E, sleeved on said rod, the wheels D, turning on said thirnbles, the hubs of said wheels being shorter than said thimbles, and the nuts 6 011 the outer ends of said rod, substantially as described.

3. In a sulky hayrake, the combination,

with the rake-head'A, of the angular plate 15 B, one part of which rests upon the top of said head and is secured thereto, and the other part bearing against the end of said head, and provided with rib c and projection d, and the rod 0, supported by said lugs and secured 20 to said head, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

, HORATIO GALE. Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE,

EDMOND I. SoULLY. 

